by admin | Aug 4, 2016 | Crosses, Oxforshire
J. W. SCOTT Location: St. Mary’s church Town/village: Warkworth County: Oxfordshire Postcode: OX17 2AG Details on cross: 3 metal tags. LT/COL. J. W. SCOTT. D.S.O 8/SOMERSET. L. I 23-4-17. Text type: GRU TAGS Cross dimensions Shaft Height: 1460 mm Cross beam...
by admin | Aug 4, 2016 | Crosses, Devon
John Gibbons Location: St Winifreds Church Town/village: Manaton County: Devon Postcode: TQ13 9UJ Details on cross: 2nd Lieut J Gibbons 6th Battn Dorsets 6th June 1917 Text type: Stamped G.R.U tag fixed with small nails. Cross dimensions Shaft Height: 930mm Cross beam...
by admin | Aug 4, 2016 | Crosses, Lincolnshire
Charles Sackville Pelham, Lord Worsley British Cross Location: All Saints Town/village: Brocklesby County: North Lincolnshire Postcode: DN41 8PN Details on cross: R.I.P Lord Worsley R.H.G Oct 30th 1914 Text type: Stamped G.R.U tag fixed with two small nails, Incised...
by admin | Aug 4, 2016 | Blog
In St Finan’s Church, Kinlochmoidart is a WW1 wooden grave marker bearing the name of ‘Captain Kenneth Forbes Meiklejohn, of the 1st Cameron Highlanders and the date of his death as 26th September 1914. It also bears the initials G.R.U., which stand for...
by admin | Aug 3, 2016 | Crosses, Somerset, Unknown soldier
Unknown Soldier Location: Church of St Mary the Virgin Town/village: Norton Sub Hamdon County: Somerset Postcode: TA14 6SU Details on cross: A – 15 (printed on diagonal tag top of the main shaft.) Unknown British Soldier (on metal GRU tag) Cross dimensions Unable to...
by admin | Aug 3, 2016 | Blog, German
Johannes Schutz, 9. Kompanie Landwehr-Infanterie-Regiment 383. was Killed in action on the 9th April 1917. He is buried in the concentration graves at Langemark, in the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge Cemetery in an area that would have been very familiar to...
by admin | Aug 3, 2016 | Blog
There’s a sort of axis of travel in everyone’s existence, roads that we travel often at various times that become embedded into us a part of our journey through life. Well worn paths that aren’t exactly desire lines, they are the things that link us...
by admin | Aug 2, 2016 | Crosses, Gloucestershire
John Whitcombe Location: All Hallows’ Church Village: South Cerney County: Gloucestershire Postcode: GL7 5TT Details: (GRU tag on top of vertical shaft) 15193 L/CPL J.WHITCOMBE R.C.D. 6/ F. GARRY HORSE DIED OF WOUNDS 1/7/15 Text type: GRU tags Cross Dimensions...
by admin | Aug 2, 2016 | Crosses, Wiltshire
Nicholas Weatherby Hill Location: St Andrews Church Town/village: St. Bartholomew Street, Donhead St. Andrew, County: Wiltshire Postcode: SP7 9EB Details on cross: Top part of shaft there is the following: GRU tag which reads: GRU5 painted Light Infantry Insignia In a...
by admin | Aug 2, 2016 | Blog
On his fourth operational flight John Ross Robertson found himself in a dogfight with Oberleutnant Adolph Ritter von Tutschek, Robertson is not only out-experienced but his Sopwith Pup is outclassed by von Tutschek’s Albatross D111. After a one-sided fight Robertson...
by admin | Aug 2, 2016 | Angus, Crosses, German
John Ross Robertson (2) Location: Montrose Air Station museum Town/village: Waldron Road, Montrose County: Angus Postcode: DD10 9BD Details on cross: Starting at the top of the shaft: Small metal GRU plate stamped with G R U, two small nails (painted): ERS TARB DEN...
by admin | Aug 2, 2016 | Crosses, Fife
John Ross Robertson This is a rather exceptional example of multiple memorials for one person within a family. Scott has researched this memorial and the twin of it that this is based on at Montrose. Location: Dunfermline Cemetery, Town/village: Halbeath Road,...
